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How to Set up a Business Bank Account for Your Freelance Business - There are numerous benefits to setting up a bank account for your business. Find out more with this article.

Business Insurance – And What You Need To Know - In getting your business up and running, have you taken care of the “What ifs”? Like – “What if I get sick, how do I pay my bills” or “What if I have a fire, how do I keep my business running”. Simply put, the one thing you do not want is to have the business that you have labored so tirelessly on, hit a financial snag.

7 Steps to Setting Up a Home Business Budget - Every Home Business entrepreneur has the same goal - to earn money, it can be as little as $20 a month or as much a $1,000,000 a year. That being said, as with any business keeping track of incoming and outgoing cash is vital to the success or failure of your business.

7 Things to Consider Before Buying Small Business Accounting Software - Here are the seven things you must consider before making a purchase that will help you achieve your businesses goals.

Setting a Realistic Budget - Setting up a budget for your business (any business) seems like a simple thing but my hunch is most people do not ever get around to it. I know that I went several months without actually drawing one up on paper although I think I had something in my head.

Pricing Your Projects Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you charge too much you won't get hired and if you charge too little you'll starve.

Track those billable hours! Keeping track of your hours in a time sheet is the best way to go if you need these reports. But even if it is not required by your customer it can be very useful to track your hours for multiple reasons

Collect Your Money - On Time! Most SOHO and small business owners don't have the financial resources to wait for their customers to pay them. The inability to collect money in a timely manner is a leading reason for small business failures.

Risky Business: Get the Money You Need to Finance Your Biz Here are some unconventional ways to get the money you need. However, realize that you may lose everything and have to start over (this can't be stressed enough).

How to Master the Financial Side of Your Business 8 out of every 10 business owners are trying to manage their business without having the financial side of their business under control.

The Self-Employed 401(K) For Freelance Workers Want to make great money from your writing skills? Become a copywriter (a writer for business).

How To Avoid Paying Too Much Estimated Tax Now that we're past the year's half-way point, this is a good time to take a look at how much you've paid in so far, and whether you need to make any adjustments to this year's remaining two quarterly estimated tax payments.

Keeping Your Business's Finances on Track The only drawback to having a lack of experience and/or business education is that it can make tracking your company's finances difficult. Even accountants who spend their lives working with numbers often find bookkeeping a tedious chore.

Hobby or Home Business Another telecommuting option is to create your own home business. The happiest people are the ones that are doing what they enjoy! What about you? Do you have a hobby that could be expanded into a small home business?

Reduce Your Unsecured Debts and Weather the Storm. Panic! Stress to find stability or another job FAST! Bankruptcy! It doesn't have to be like that if you use a money management tool known as settlement negotiations to trim just a few of your debts off.. If the truth were known you can actually use this method at any stage of your financial situation if you don't mind a slight blemish to your rating.

Freelancers Need a Budget When you leave your full-time job for a freelance career, you also leave behind your stable paycheck. So how do you make sure that you have enough money to pay your rent? You need to learn how to create a budget. This article will explain to you the basics of budgeting for your freelance business.

Whats it Cost to Start a Home Business? If you want your site to become a significant source of income, judicious use of time is mandatory. No one person can do it all. And what you need but don't have time to do, will cost.

Financial Management Tips Is a savings account something you're still planning to open instead of something you put money into regularly? If so, you're not alone.Here are some tips to help

How To Manage Your Money Many businesses that fail do not know how to manage their money properly and make a few mistakes that cost them big time in the long run.

To Charge or Not to Charge .... Credit and Your Home Business Financing is often the biggest obstacle faced by people planning a home business

Basic Terms and Concepts (BusinessTown.com) There are a few (and only a few) things you need to understand in order to make setting up your accounting system easier. They're basic (trust me), and they will probably clear up any confusion you may have had in the past when talking with your CPA or other technical accounting types.

Business Bbanking Advice - (FreelanceUK.com) Why do you need bank account? What options are available to me as a freelancer? Are the options different if I am self-employed or have started a limited company?

Company and Credit Checking- (FreelanceUK.com)Several of our guides suggest checking your client’s and potential client’s credit rating. Sometimes it is also necessary to check your own companies credit rating and this is why we have teamed up with checkSURE to deliver this service to your desktop.

Components of the Accounting System  (BusinessTown.com) Components of the Accounting System Think of the accounting system as a wheel whose hub is the general ledger (G/L). Feeding the hub information are the spokes of the wheel.

The Language of Accounting  (BusinessTown.com) The people who run the accounting system speak in an unintelligible blur of debits and credits...find out what they are saying

Stan Davis on free agent finance. (FastCompany.com)Read more stories from this December 1997 issue Free-Agent Finance - Stan Davis A conversation with Stan Davis, consultant and writer. (by Daniel H. Pink and Michael Warshaw)

How To Budget For Success (Entrepreneur.com) - If you're like many start-up homebased business owners, you haven't budgeted enough for marketing expenses. Our homebased expert reveals why you can't ignore this crucial element to success.

Small Business Bank Account For Freelancers- (FreelanceUK.com) General information for the freelancer regarding their banking set up. It is best to tackle this one early on as sorting out a trail of old invoices going back six months is not fun.

Freelance Finances - (BBC) Thinking about going it alone? The thought of going freelance can be tempting, but before you take the plunge there are some things you need to consider.

Expense-Tracking Tips - (CT.Monster.com) - Watch every penny and trace every nickel you spend on business. Your bank account will thank you later

Freelance Calculators- (FreelanceUK.com) Here is our collection of calculators to help save you time when working out TAX, VAT, PAYE, Loans and more.

Manage Your Finances More Efficiently (HomeBusinessMag.com) - Microsoft® Money 2004 Small Business provides small businesses and sole proprietors with the tools they need to manage their business finances.

Securing Your Busines's Finances Through Multiple Revenue Resources (Entrepreneur.com) - Cash-flow problems. Down times. Entrepreneur.com's Ideas & Inspiration Expert shows you how you can avoid these fiscal nightmares by broadening your offerings with multiple revenue sources.

Freelance Pensions- (FreelanceUK.com) Most of us do not like to look that far into the future but, if we are lucky we may reach it to retirement! Pensions, despite previous bad press, can still make a valid contribution to your retirement package and help you save tax! Freelance UK's on-line guide to pensions.

Dealing With Financial Anxiety (Entrepreneur.com) - Don't let money issues get you down. We'll help you deal with the stress of financing your homebased business.

Managing Cash Flow for Improved Profits~Cash Management is Critical to Your Bottom Line (HomeBusinessMag.com) - Cash flow — how much money is flowing into and out of your home business — is an easy concept to understand. Still, not every entrepreneur is fully aware of the impact that cash flow has on the bottom-line.

Fund Your Retirement (CT.Monster.com) - Feel like you have forever to save for the future? Just remember: One day, it will be an immediate expense.

Pensions for Freelancers- (FreelanceUK.com) We have teamed up with FreelancerMoney to help advise you concerning your Pension situation to make sure you have adequate provision for retirement.

How to Finance Your Business (PowerHomeBiz.com) - Read tips and advice on how to finance a start-up business, manage finances and cash flow, control taxes and handle book keeping tasks.

Barter to the Cause (Entrepreneur.com) - Does cutting costs sound like a good start-up idea? Read on for 5 tips to help you save money by bartering.

9 Easy Ways to Boost Your Profits in 2005~Simple, But Effective Tips to Cut Expenses and Boost Income (HomeBusinessMag.com) - When it comes to your home-based business in 2005, there’s no need to make ambitious but unattainable promises. Here are nine easy steps you can take to simplify your life, lower expenses and pump up your net income in the New Year